Fishers Hill Picnic Revives Historic Civil War Battlefield Gatherings
The Fishers Hill picnic returns today on the Civil War battlefield site, a first Saturday August tradition since its inception by Confederate veterans about 50 years ago. Once the valley’s big social event, it featured national speakers including President Taft in 1909 and large rail excursion crowds from the Southern and Baltimore and Ohio lines. Forty years ago thousands rode trains to attend, while locals traveled by horse and buggy starting the night before.
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Chinese Troops Crush Communist Rebellion in Fukien
The Chinese government claims its forces crushed a Communist uprising in Fukien Province and saved Foochow from capture. Censorship limits details while unconfirmed reports from Hongkong spoke of a Communist breach toward Shuikow and threats to Foochow port as the British warship Witcher arrived at Foochow.
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Witch
Changes Mind On Enlisting By The Associated Press
Lord Edward Montagu, 28, initially joined a trip to the French Foreign Legion but, after arriving in Dunkirk, decided against enlisting. He flew back to London where he is expected to marry, avoiding deployment to Sahara duties.
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French Foreign Legion
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London
Militia Mobilizes for State Camp in Virginia Beach
Norfolk dispatch reports more than 2000 officers and enlisted men of the Ninety-first Brigade Virginia National Guard moving toward Camp George Campbell Peery Virginia Beach. Guardsmen will arrive by special train and bus with some units arriving by private car. Winchester unit expected on a special train tomorrow morning.
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George Campbell Peery
Virginia Beach
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Winchester
Freight Train Pounced Upon By Thieving Gang
Pennsylvania freight train crew reports a gang stealing cargo between Washington and Philadelphia. Thieves tossed large cartons to confederates on ground near Lanham Maryland and fled in two MD-registered cars with hundreds of dollars in cigarettes.
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Public Funeral At Arlington For Ambassador May
The State Department plans a public funeral at Arlington Cemetery on August 16 or 17 for Paul May the Belgian ambassador. After services, the body will head to Annapolis then Pensacola for transport to Antwerp. Admiral Standley ordered Pensacola to move from Provincetown to Annapolis.
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Washington
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Paul May
Belgium
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Negro Lynched By His Own Race Near Bethany
In Shreveport Louisiana a group of about ten Negroes hanged Grafton Page 30 near Bethany twenty two miles away. They stripped him and beat him to death with pine knots after the automobile he drove with a girl passenger struck a truck and left the girl unconscious. No arrests yet reported.
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Shreveport
Grafton Page
Bethany
Page
Washington youths killed in head on crash in Greenwich
Raymond Cole 17 of Washington DC died and four Washington residents injured when two autos collided head on on the Boston Post road in Greenwich Connecticut today.
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Associated Press
Greenwich
Salvation Army Major and Mrs Mars Hold Services
Open air services tonight at 7 45 p m with Sunday schedule including jail 10 30 a m Sabbath School 2 p m es P L 7 p m open air 7 30 p m preaching 8 p m Captain Lela Kendrick who has aided six weeks gives farewell Sunday night before leaving for Cambridge Md Mr and Mrs Mars will have an assistant August 28
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James Mars
Lela Kendrick
St Stephen's C M E Church Service Notice
Colored Haddox Street church announces pastor Rev B L Ingram will preach at 11 a m and 8 p m Sunday. Sunday School begins at 10 a m, all children urged to attend.
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Presbyterian Sermons and Sunday School Schedule
The Presbyterian Church on South Loudoun Street announces Rev E B McGukin to preach at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday. Sunday School starts at 9:30 a.m. Bible classes at 9:45 a.m. Rev Henry Tucker Graham, D D, is noted in association with the services.
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E. B. McGukin
Henry Tucker Graham
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Lea Permitted To Attend Son's Funeral With Guards
Governor Ehringhaus will grant Luke Lea a temporary parole to attend the funeral of his son Percy Lea in Raleigh with guards from North Carolina and Tennessee. Lea, a former Nashville publisher and senator, is serving six to ten years for banking law violations after entering State's Prison last May.
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N. C
Ehringhaus
Luke Lea
Nashville
Tenn
Percy Lea
North Carolina
Tennessee
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Twenty Five Killed In Hiroshima Dynami te Blast
In Nakano near Hiroshima a dynamite explosion during power plant construction killed 25 laborers and injured 8. The incident occurred today as crews worked at the project site. Local authorities launched an investigation into the blast.
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Associated Press
Hiroshima
Japan
Nakano
Lorraine Wycoff dies as tiniest quadruplet fades
SAC CITY Iowa Aug 4 Death today claimed Lorraine Delaine Wycoff the smallest of the June 9 quadruplets born to Mr and Mrs Larry Wycoff The infant weighed only three and a half pounds at last check having shown no organic illness according to Dr G H Swearingen who delivered the quads and cared for them since birth
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Iowa
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Larry Wycoff
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Quartet To Be Heard Sunday At Galilee Church
The Handley male quartet will perform at Galilee Church Welltown Sunday morning and afternoon as part of evangelistic meetings conducted by H. D. Coffey. Quartet members include James Good Bruce Shade Arthur Shull and Courtney Grim.
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H. D. Coffey
James Good
Bruce Shade
Arthur Shull
Courtney Grim
Dillinger Escape Probe Focuses on Lake County
Indiana Attorney General Philip Lutz says 16 federal agents operate in Lake county chasing Dillinger escape remnants. He notes attention to the Crown Point jail break last March and claims evidence shows money financed the escape.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Philip Lutz, Jr
Lake County
John Dillinger
Dillinger
Crown Point
Lutz
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